User interface devices for use in robotic surgery
AssigneeVerb Surgical Inc.
InventorsJoan Savall, Allegra Anna Lenta Shum, Jose Luis Cordoba, Yiqi Zeng
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Abstract
A handheld user interface device for controlling a robotic system may include a member, a housing at least partially disposed around the member and configured to be held in the hand of a user, and a tracking sensor system disposed on the member and configured to detect at least one of position and orientation of at least a portion of the device. At least one of the detected position of the portion of the device and detected orientation of the portion of the device is correlatable to a control of the robotic system.
Claims19
A handheld user interface device for controlling a robotic system, the handheld user interface device comprising:
- a flexible housing having an inner housing wall and an outer housing wall and is at least partially disposed around a lumen, and is configured to be held in a hand of a user;
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- a capacitive sensor that detects the user squeezing the flexible housing by sensing deformation of the inner housing wall, the sensed deformation is an input for controlling the robotic system.
An apparatus comprising:
- a flexible housing having an inner housing wall and an outer housing wall and is at least partially disposed around and is configured to couple to a lumen;
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- a capacitive sensor arranged to detect squeezing of the flexible housing by sensing deformation of the inner housing wall, the sensed deformation is an input for controlling at least a portion of a robotic system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.